Harold Bierman, Jr., Cornell University Overview The 1929 stock market crash is conventionally said to have occurred on Thursday the 24th and Tuesday the 29th of October. These two dates have been dubbed “Black Thursday” and “Black Tuesday,” respectively. On September 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reached a record high of 381.2. At […]
Published by EH.NET (August 2007) Bernard C. Beaudreau, How the Republicans Caused the Stock Market Crash of 1929: GPT’s, Failed Transitions, and Commercial Policy. Lincoln, NE: iUniverse, 2005. xx + 200 pp. $19 (paperback), ISBN: 0-595-37908-7. Reviewed for EH.NET by Carlos D. Ramirez, Department of Economics, George Mason University. In his book, Bernard C. Beaudreau […]
EH.NET BOOK REVIEW Published by EH.NET (February 1998) Bernard C. Beaudreau, Mass Production, the Stock Market Crash, and the Great Depression: The Macroeconomics of Electrification. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1996. xx + 182 pp. $59.95 (cloth), ISBN: 031329920X. Reviewed for EH.NET by William J. Hausman, Department of Economics, College of William and Mary. Beaudreau asserts boldly […]
Published by EH.NET (April 2003) Didier Sornette, Why Stock Markets Crash: Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2002. xx + 421 pp. $29.95 (hardcover), ISBN: 0-691-09630-9. Reviewed for EH.NET by Gary Santoni, Department of Economics, Ball State University. Why Stock Markets Crash by Didier Sornette is an interesting and thought-provoking […]
Published by EH.Net (December 2025). Andrew Ross Sorkin. 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History – And How it Shattered a Nation. New York: Viking, 2025. xxi + 567 pp. $35 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0593296967. Reviewed for EH.Net by Sebastián Royo, Clark University. The stock market crash of 1929 is considered a defining […]
Published by EH.Net (May 2025). Harold James. Seven Crashes: The Economic Crises That Shaped Globalization. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2023. viii + 367 pp. $32.50 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0300263398. Reviewed for EH.Net by Mary Tone Rodgers, State University of New York at Oswego. Harold James, Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University, […]
Published by EH.Net (September 2017) Phillip G. Payne, Crash! How the Economic Boom and Bust of the 1920s Worked. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. viii +142 pp. $20 (paperback), ISBN: 978-1-4214-1856-8. Reviewed for EH.Net by Randall Parker, Department of Economics, East Carolina University. Crash! is a part of the “How Things Worked” series […]
Published by EH.Net (August 2015) Ali Kabiri, The Great Crash of 1929: A Reconciliation of Theory and Evidence. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. xv + 236 pp. $115 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-137-37288-8. Reviewed for EH.Net by Raphaël Hekimian, West Paris University and the Paris School of Economics, and David Le Bris, KEDGE Business School. The New […]
Published by EH.Net (March 2014) William N. Goetzmann, Catherine Labio, K. Geert Rouwenhorst and Timothy G. Young, editors, The Great Mirror of Folly: Finance, Culture and the Crash of 1720. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013. xiv + 346 pp. $75 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-300-16246-2. Reviewed for EH.Net by Antoin E. Murphy, Department of Economics, Trinity […]
Published by EH.Net (July 2013)?Janice M. Traflet, A Nation of Small Shareholders: Marketing Wall Street after World War II. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. xi + 242 pp. $45 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-1-4214-0902-3. Reviewed for EH.Net by Lynne Pierson Doti, School of Business and Economics, Chapman University Don?t let the frivolous dust jacket fool you. […]
